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...Lincoln Lawyer” can be described as the anti-John Grisham novel. All those idealistic, Wonderbread-eating young lawyers and greedy, cigarette-manufacturing corporations are nowhere to be found—they both must be strictly Southern things...
...novel benefits from the author’s knowledge of details about the lurid legal arena. Connelly thanks several defense attorneys in his acknowledgements, and he writes that he observed proceedings in a courtroom—it shows. Haller glibly throws around jargon and tactics familiar to “defense pros,” and the novel’s exposition is a fascinating glimpse into the life of a skilled defense lawyer...
...last week he marries one of them on national TV. It’s pretty ridiculous. If I wanted to marry a 20 something girl, there are easier ways of doing that. I showed [the letter] to my friends, and everyone laughed. I thought, I can make a humorous novel of this...
...blossoming love, an indecent letter, a brutal crime. Misconstrued, they set the stage for a tragic transgression—an unforgivable sin—that will haunt Briony Tallis, the remorseful heroine of Ian McEwan’s novel “Atonement,” for the rest of her life...
...novel, then, is Briony’s attempt to atone for the crime she has committed. It is her purgatory and almost—but not quite—her absolution. Set against the carnage and devastation of World War II, McEwan’s masterpiece is a tale of personal estrangement and shattered community, individual guilt and collective suffering, childhood, and war—and the survival of love in the midst...